{"id":43707,"date":"2019-02-22T01:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/capitol-live-wrapping-up-a-busy-week\/"},"modified":"2019-02-22T11:59:52","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T20:59:52","slug":"capitol-live-wrapping-up-a-busy-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/capitol-live-wrapping-up-a-busy-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol Live: Wrapping up a busy week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>11:50 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/aksenatedems.com\/docs\/022119_LRS_Municipality_Property_Taxes_Compensate_Budget.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">a report from the nonpartisan Legislative Research Division<\/a>, property taxes in the Municipality of Anchorage would have to increase 25 percent to compensate for education cuts proposed in Dunleavy&rsquo;s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bill Wielechowski, D-Anchorage, continues to be the most vocal legislator this session, and issued a statement about this study.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Educating our kids is not just a moral but also a constitutional obligation,&rdquo; Wielechowski said in the statement. &ldquo;While Gov. Dunleavy has promised no new taxes, his education cuts will shift massive new taxes and burdens onto local communities and taxpayers.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><em> &mdash; Alex McCarthy<\/em><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"DV-viewer-5747031-022119-LRS-Municipality-Property-Taxes\" class=\"DC-embed DC-embed-document DV-container\"><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/viewer\/loader.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script>\n  DV.load(\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5747031-022119-LRS-Municipality-Property-Taxes.js\", {\n  responsive: true,\n    container: \"#DV-viewer-5747031-022119-LRS-Municipality-Property-Taxes\"\n  });\n<\/script><br \/>\n<noscript><br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5747031\/022119-LRS-Municipality-Property-Taxes.pdf\">022119 LRS Municipality Property Taxes Compensate Budget (PDF)<\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.documentcloud.org\/documents\/5747031\/022119-LRS-Municipality-Property-Taxes.txt\">022119 LRS Municipality Property Taxes Compensate Budget (Text)<\/a><br \/>\n<\/noscript><\/p>\n<p><strong>10:35 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As expected, Alaskans have been vocal about Gov. Mike Dunleavy&rsquo;s proposed budget. Rep. Zack Fields, D-Anchorage, tweeted this morning that the feedback he&rsquo;s hearing has been overwhelmingly one-sided.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-partner=\"tweetdeck\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">My constituents have told me they&#39;re &quot;disgusted,&quot; &quot;horrified,&quot; &quot;appalled&quot; by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GovDunleavy?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GovDunleavy<\/a> budget. Zero voters have told me they support it. I can&#39;t remember a Gov proposal over the last few years that&#39;s attracted such harsh, unanimous condemnation.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/akleg?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#akleg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Zack Fields (@FieldsZack) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FieldsZack\/status\/1099027546190958592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 22, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>9:30 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It projects to be a quiet day at the Capitol. Currently, representatives from the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Health and Social Services are presenting to the Senate Finance Committee. Co-chair Sen. Bert Stedman is currently asking question about the future of Pioneer Homes in Alaska.<\/p>\n<p>Both the House and Senate are holding floor sessions shortly, and many legislators are planning on leaving town this afternoon. Some already flew out this morning for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p><em> &mdash; Alex McCarthy<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live updates from inside the Capitol. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":43708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-43707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43707"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=43707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}